"Sonny With a Real Chance"

By Tenshi Noyo Ryu Taiga


Chapter Four:

The room was stunned silent. Sonny could feel herself choking on her own saliva. Everybody knew that the popular bestselling series Twilight was in the works to become a movie, but that was scheduled for at least two years in the future, most certainly not this February.

"My name is Catherine Hardwicke and I'm going to be the director of this film. Alison Monroe?" She called out, but looked straight at Sonny. Sonny froze as everybody turns to look at her, "You were selected for the main lead of Bella Swan."

Sonny reached her arm out and gripped at the nearest person as she nearly fainted in shock. Although, unfortunately for her embarrassment level, the person she grabbed onto was the cute guy she was kind of flirting with.

She was the lead role? Her? She assumed she'd be playing some small time role like Chad did and end up as the mail carrier. But no, they wanted her as the lead role of a major hit and there would be no mistaking it, Twilight would be a major hit.

"Robert Pattinson?" the woman continued and this time Sonny looked up as she noticed that the man she was still gripping onto had started to pay attention to the blonde instead of looking down at her, "You will be Edward Cullen."

The woman continued down the list, naming the entire Cullen family, Bella's human friends, Jacob and the enemy vampires, but Sonny was too busy processing. She was the lead. She was currently leaching onto the arm of her co-star who she was also subtly flirting with using body language not a moment before… Did the embarrassment never end?

"As you recall, all cell phones were confiscated at entrance to a call back. Just a precaution. Like I said, this movie is very secret. We realize this is quite a decision, but unfortunately you only have four hours to make it. In these four hours, you cannot leave and you cannot contact anybody else. Your decision does not leave this room. Once you are finished, inform us of your decision and then, feel free to leave," was the last thing the woman said before leaving the auditioning room.

Sonny started when she heard a soft voice with a British lilt, "Hey," Rob asked quietly, putting his hand on top of her own, "Are you alright?"

She jerked her hand away when she realized she was still touching him and she felt her cheeks redden in embarrassment. Based on Rob's chuckles, she assumed he could see that too, "I'm fine. I'm just…"

"Shocked? That's understandable. This is my first really big film… other than Harry Potter really," Rob smiled.

Sonny was entranced by his grin and stupidly replied, "You were in Harry Potter?" She mentally smacked herself when she noticed his grin dim.

"Cedric Diggory," he replied, looking away.

"Oh, that's right. I knew you looked familiar," She lied. She hadn't recognized him at all. Then again, it had been quite a while since she'd seen the movie.

Rob smiled again, "So what do you think?"

"About what?" She replied, mesmerized by his smile again.

He looked at her oddly, "The role."

She blinked and snapped herself out of it, "Right. Uhm, I don't really know. I came here today with the intention of turning it down. I'm in this comedy tv show right now with some really good friends and if I did this, I'd have to miss a bunch of episodes with them. I had just decided to turn it down when I received this call back."

"But?" Rob asked.

Sonny smiled as she tilted her head in acquiesces, "But I absolutely love the Twilight series. I've read all the books, I've done the fan girl thing and obsessed about the perfection of Edward Cullen-" She stopped awkwardly as she realized what she had just admitted to the actor that was going to be playing Edward. She awkwardly hurried on, ignoring his knowing grin, "I love Stephenie Meyer. How can I say no to this?"

"It sounds like you've already made up your mind," Rob smiled at her enthusiasm.

Sonny blinked in shock before grinning widely, "Yeah. Yeah, I guess I have," She fished out a pen from her purse and grabbed his hand. She knew this was kind of forward of her, but it wasn't like she was asking him out. She had a boyfriend. This was just being friendly, mixed with some harmless flirting, of course, "If you wanna talk Twilight, call me," She said as she wrote down her number on the back of his hand before walking to the front and to sign the contract. Sonny walked out the door, ignoring the scrutiny once again. She saw Catherine waiting impatiently.

"Hello," She bounced up out of her seat, reminding Sonny of a child.

"I'm in," Sonny smiled and that was all that really needed to be said.